No space between i.e. and change
Submiting.
Sign up.
?processors?
Comma after 48 hours.
And NO BUSINESS starts with "dear".

The usual fucked-up English from third-world idiots with computers.
Need to start executing people for it. Then see how quickly it stops.

Holy crap... there were errors in that mail!

I must have not had coffee when I read it or something.

Anyway, I got a note back ( a template email) from 'Ian' thanking me for reporting it.

The page it links to is down so ...

My work here is done.  Damn spoofers..

I got one yesterday that was pretty convincing. It was from someone pretending to be from citibank stating that all cardholders have to register for Billpay. There was only one spelling error and a few minor grammatical errors. As a whole one of the better phishing expeditions that I have seen. Of course it still ended up in the trash bin, but some of these do worry me as far as gullible people go. You figure they send this stuff out to 1000's maybe 100,000's of recipients. Even if they only get less than a 10th of a percent to fall for it then the dirtbags are in business.

-PD

Well, it really is not a matter of excuses. Not everyone is tech savvy and just because someone has a computer does not mean they know what they are doing, particularly when dealing with some of th con artists out there. The same could be said about cars and driving...Frank, I am sorry, but driving along I95 or I93 can be an experience regardless as to whether it it is in NH or MA. Have you never been to Boston where your life flashes before your eyes every 5 minutes? Just because you have a car does not mean you know how to drive the freakin' thing. In fact, it is more than likely the driver is seriously lacking in an understanding of the most basic rules of the road.

No one is saying that people are not responsible for their actions; and yes, some people do just hand over their credit cards when someone calls them saying they are from their bank or perhaps a place they may have ordered from (which is easy to find out). Going by what you are saying, the people doing these scams should not be prosecuted, after all, the person being scammed should have known better.

-PD

Damn, Jon, some guys have all the luck

Deadlord36 wrote:Hey, we should hook up! I'm headed to Namibia to speak with Colonel Rwumubana Mgobleyate about a money transfer myself!
Perhaps they have AfriCon?
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Wow!  What a coincidence!  The widow of the late President for life Hatulata Ngumba from Nigeria has contacted me and I'm poised to collect 20 percent of several million dollars (as soon as the paperwork goes through, natch).  Who would have thought so many gamers would have been the ones blessed with these riches, eh?  Maybe after all of us collect our money we can buy out WOTC and put out D&D 4th edition or something.
 But in a serious vein, I just read the other day where one of the most notorious spammers (not the Buffalo spammer who will spend several years in jail, hopefully as someone's battered wife) was caught, it was a teenager who had managed to con some 600+ people on the internet out of their passwords and had either bank account or credit card information using the phishing techniques described above.  His phishing was remarkably professional, and despite admonations not to give out information online, at least 600+ people did so.  That's shocking.

Mike B.

I had three different people with the same last name as me die in car crashes in Africa in one week, all with no known relatives and 10 to 15 million in the bank.  The banking officials were going to pay it out to me as the closest relative.  And the kind gentlemen who contacted me let me know, just in case I was concerned, that this was a legitimate deal.  It grieves me to lose so many relatives in such a short time.  Sniff...

I got several but I think I've kill-filtered most of them now.

I hate them worse that resellers, Shillers, PDFers or Furries.